Gigapans

The Christmas Stroll is a Nantucket tradition. The main event features the arrival of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus on a Coast Guard cutter. Santa and wife then ride up Main Street preceded by the Nantucket Town Crier.
In this gigapan, you can see many Christmas trees decorated by school groups, civic groups, busines...

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This was taken from the University of Massachusetts Nantucket field station looking out over a nearby salt marsh. More information about the field station can be found here:
www.umb.edu/nantucket/index.html
The GPS position has been approximated from Google Maps but should be good to within 100 feet or so...

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This windmill was built in 1746 by Nathan Wilbur, a Nantucket sailor who had studied Dutch mills. Volunteer millers from the Nantucket Historical Association keep the mill in operation and still grind cornmeal with it.
The style of mill is called a smock mill. Only the top or cap of the mill turns to face the wind. ...

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This windmill was built in 1746 by Nathan Wilbur, a Nantucket sailor who had studied Dutch mills. Volunteer millers from the Nantucket Historical Association keep the mill in operation and still grind cornmeal with it.
The style of mill is called a smock mill. Only the top or cap of the mill turns to face the wind...

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This sperm whale skeleton is on display in the Whaling Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association. It came from a 46 foot long bull sperm whale that beached on Jan 1, 1998 at Sconset's Low Beach.
Many Nantucketers participated in the messy process of extracting and preparing the bones for display. Tools from t...

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It was a gorgeous morning with little wind. All I could hear were the distant calls of the seabirds and and the muted thwap, thwap, thwap of nail guns in the distance as homes were readied for the summer season.